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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014

Research

Drug-Resistant Candida glabrata Infection in Cancer Patients

Dimitrios Farmakiotis1, Jeffrey J. Tarrand, and Dimitrios P. KontoyiannisComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA (D. Farmakiotis, J.J. Tarrand, D.P. Kontoyiannis); Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (D. Farmakiotis)

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A) Mean 28-day survival (days, mean ± SE) and B) Kaplan-Meier survival curves, relative to caspofungin MIC and susceptibility in Candida glabrata isolates, according to the updated definitions (susceptible: MIC<0.25 mg/L, intermediate: MIC = 0.25 mg/L, resistant: MIC ≥0.5 mg/L) and previous definitions (susceptible: MIC ≤2 mg/L, nonsusceptible: MIC >2 mg/L) among 93 patients who received an echinocandin, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, March 2005–September 2013; log-rank p

Figure. A) Mean 28-day survival (days, mean ± SE) and B) Kaplan-Meier survival curves, relative to caspofungin MIC and susceptibility in Candida glabrata isolates, according to the updated definitions (susceptible: MIC<0.25 mg/L, intermediate: MIC = 0.25 mg/L, resistant: MIC ≥0.5 mg/L) and previous definitions (susceptible: MIC ≤2 mg/L, nonsusceptible: MIC >2 mg/L) among 93 patients who received an echinocandin, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, March 2005–September 2013; log-rank p = 0.001 for linear trend.

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1Current affiliation: Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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